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{{Infobox film | name = Naayak | image = Naayak Poster HD.jpg | caption = Theatrical Release Poster | director = V. V. Vinayak | producer = D.V.V Danayya | story = Akula Siva | screenplay = Akula Siva | starring = Ram Charan Teja
Kajal Aggarwal
Amala Paul | music = Thaman | cinematography = Chota K. Naidu | editing = Gautam Raju | studio = Universal Media | distributor = Errabus (UK & Europe) [1]
Universal Media (USA)[2]

| released =

  • 9 January 2013 (2013-01-09)[3]

| country = India | language = Telugu | runtime = 160 minutes[4] | budget = ₹35 crore (US$4.2 million) | gross = ₹80 crore (US$9.6 million)(50 days)[5]}

Naayak (Telugu: నాయక్) is a 2013 Telugu film directed by V. V. Vinayak and starring Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Aggarwal and Amala Paul in lead roles. The film was produced by D. V. V Danayya under Universal Media banner.[6] The film marks the second time Ram Charan and Kajal are paired together after Magadheera. The soundtrack was composed by S. Thaman. It was dubbed into Tamil & Malayalam under the same title.[7] The film began shooting in February 2012.[8] It was released worldwide on 9 January 2013 to positive reviews and was declared a financial success.[8][9]

Plot

The movie opens with Siddharth Nayak(Ram Charan Teja) killing Minister Rawat's (Pradeep Rawat) brother (Ajaz Khan) and his henchmen thus saving three men. Rawat orders CBI Officer (Ashish Vidyarthi) to catch the criminal so that he may kill that killer. The scene shifts to Hyderabad where Cherry (Ram Charan Teja) is a software engineer in CgTrix. He has an uncle named Jilebi (Brahmanandam), who unexpectedly runs into trouble and angers the local Don Gandi Babji (Rahul Dev). Cherry hatches a plan to save Jilebi from Babji and succeeds but falls for Babji's sister Madhu (Kajal Agarwal) in the process. Though Madhu initially rejects him, after his act of saving children from a mafia don, she reciprocates his love.

This angers Babji and he goes to kill him but shocks seeing Cherry shooting the DGP of West Bengal hiding in the bushes. As fate would have it, at this point, The CBI Officer finds out that Cherry is responsible for the two murders, who is innocent in reality. With Jilebi, the CBI Officer goes to Kumbha Mela at Kasi to catch him. Meanwhile when Rawat is offering holy rituals and the CBI Officer catch Cheery and hold him, the look-alike of Cherry, who killed Rawat's Brother, rises from the Ganges and hurts him with a trident, injuring all his men fatally. As he was about to deliver a Finishing Blow, the CBI Officer attcks him and arrests him, exonerating Cherry. Then Cherry comes to know the story of his look-alike.

Siddharth Naayak, who goes to his sister's house in Kolkata to pursue higher education. Siddharth shares a strong bond of love and affection with his Sister (Surekha Vani), Brother-in-Law (Rajeev Kanakala) and his Sister-in-Law Nandini (Amala Paul). Siddharth and Nandini are about to be married. Meanwhile his Brother-in-Law, who is a Doctor, attends a case of a minor effected with Steroids by Rawat's Second Brother (Dev Gill) and sent for Prostitution. He Complaints to the Police but is Killed by Rawat's Second Brother as the Police officer was his Friend. Siddarth is unable to bear this and kills Rawat's Second Brother, thus becoming a Sensational Leader overnight. Soon he seizes each and every property of Rawat and distributes it to the Public. Rawat then kills the Minister, blames Siddharth for it and stabs him with a knife and throws him into the Ganges. Rawat becomes the Minister within a week and Siddharth survives, planning to kill Rawat.

Cherry, after listening to his story, decides to help him. Cherry along with Jilebi goes to the CBI Jail where Siddharth is kept under Custody. He introduces himself, and hatches a plan to get Siddharth exonerated. At the Court, since Siddharth admits that he committed the crime, the Judge orders to put Siddharth to death by passing Capital Punishment. But Cherry enters the court, admitting that he is Siddharth Naayak and the one standing there is his fan. Siddharth too tells the same that he is Siddharth and the one who entered the court is his fan. Thus due to Confusion, the Judge orders to CBI to find out real identities of the two persons in a span of 10 Days. In these 10 Days, Siddharth manages to bring Madhu and her family including Babji and his Paternal Uncle (Jaya Prakash Reddy) to Kolkata, thus uniting Cherry and Madhu. Meanwhile the next day, Rawat makes a call to Siddarth to come to his place in order to save the kidnapped school children. But Cherry lifts the phone, listens to the conversation, goes to Rawat's place only to be attacked by Rawat severely. Siddharth reaches the place after seeing an MMS by Rawat, frees Cherry and kills Rawat with the help of Cherry. The Case becomes void because of lack of evidence and in the end, all goes well with the union of Cherry and Madhu and Siddharth and Nandini.

Cast

Production

Casting

The film revolves around a boy who fights hard to fulfill his brother-in-law's ambition.[10] Ram Charan Teja would play a dual role in the film for the first time in his career[11] and the film was said to have an emotionally charged interval block.[12] He would share the screen with Kajal Aggarwal and Amala Paul in this film and the two ladies were reported to have quite an entertaining characterisation.[13] Ram Charan and Kajal were last seen as a pair in the 2009 blockbuster film Magadheera, directed by S. S. Rajamouli.[14] Pradeep Rawat is chosen for the role of the main villain. S. Thaman provided the music while Akula Siva has penned the script and Kona Venkat is the dialogue writer. Earlier reports suggested that Shruti Haasan would do an item song in the film, but were later denied by the actress herself.[15]Charmee would play an item song in the film[16] which was confirmed by herself on Twitter.[17]

Filming

The movie was Launched on 9 November 2011 early morning at Annapurna Studios. The event was graced by Mega Star Chiranjeevi, Mrs Surekha Chiranjeevi, Allu Arjun, Allu Aravind, Dr Brahmanandam, Rajamouli, Rama Rajamouli, K Raghavendra Rao, Srinu Vaitla, Sampath Nandi, NV Prasad, Bellamkonda Suresh, Shyam Prasad Reddy, B Gopal, S Gopal Reddy, MS Narayana, Raja Ravindra, etc. Chiranjeevi directed the muhurtham shot on Ram Charan, while Mrs Surekha Chiranjeevi sounded the clap. Veteran Director K Raghavendra Rao switched on the camera.[10] In Early August the music Director of the film announced the title of the film as Naayak in his twitter. In End of August, The film was extensively shot in Iceland and then in Slovenia (Postojna Cave, Piran, Bled); this was first Tollywood film shot in Slovenia.[18]

The remixed version of the song "Subhalekha Raasukunna" from Kondaveeti Donga was shot in Iceland. The song was originally supposed to be shot on Ram Charan and Kajal Aggarwal but it was filmed on Charan and Amala Paul as Kajal's dates were not available.[19][20] Sources reported that Amala Paul reportedly is going to do an ultra-glam act in the song.[21] Buzz is that the schedule will go on till 10 October but it was completed Earlier. On 7 October, Scenes featuring Ram Charan and Amala Paul were shot at Cineplanet in Kompally and Starting from 12 Oct, Some action episodes involving Charan, Dev Gill and others were shot in the next schedule.[22][23] It was reported that the fight sequences featuring Ram Charan are reportedly extremely good and sources say that these action sequences are going to be a treat for his fans.[24] Meanwhile, It was reported earlier that Naayak would release on 14 January as Ram Charan Teja's treat for the Sankranthi. Later it was rumoured that the movie was withdrawn from the Pongal race and DVV Danayya's financial hardships were said to be the reason behind the delay in the release of the film. Later the release date was Confirmed on 9 January 2013 by Danayya Himself.[25] On 23 October, It was reported that the has completed its Kolkata schedule and the unit is returning to Hyderabad. The movie was shot extensively in key locations of Kolkata like Mallik Ghat flower market, Chhote Lal ghat etc. and the movie's next schedule will begin in Hyderabad and a Huge set was erected at Saradhi studios in Hyderabad[26] for a song.[27] In November, the movie unit had its Shooting in nights at Hyderabad in spite of the extreme chill in the city.[28] In the End of November, it was reported that the post production stages, Dubbing activities have already commenced and going on a brisk space and Except for two songs and climax, the talkie part is almost complete.[29] It was also reported that The producers are planning to release the movie's audio album in December.[30] In November End, it was reported that The film's last and final schedule will begin on 3 December and a song will be shot along with the climax sequence.[31] On 7 December, the The climax sequences were shot today and it was reported that shooting is expected be fully complete in a few weeks time and it was also reported that Charan, Kajal and Amala Paul will be a part of this climax sequence along with the other principal actors.[32] Later it was Reported that after the completion of climax, the unit would shift to RFC for left over song shoot where a magnificent set is going to erect for this song shoot in RFC which will continue till 20 December 2012 and with this the entire shooting of the film will be wrapped up.[33][34] The song "Nellorae" was canned on Charan and Charmme later and it was declared that with this, the entire shooting of Naayak would come to an end.[17]

Post Production

The Post Production activities started on round the clock after the completion of shoot and it was reported that Charan himself is spending long hours in dubbing suites to complete his work on time and with just under two weeks left, producer D.V.V. Danayya and director V.V.Vinayak are personally taking care of all the activities so that the film does not miss out on its Sankranthi release.[35] On 29 December 2012 Charan completed his part of Dubbing.[36] Nayak got censor rating – 'A'.[37]

Soundtrack

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S. Thaman Provided the music for this film. This marks the first Collaboration of Thaman with Ram Charan Teja and also with V.V. Vinayak. The Super hit Ilaiyaraaja's Melody "Subhalekha Rasukunna" from Chiranjeevi's Kondaveeti Donga was Re-mixed in this film. The audio rights were bagged by Aditya Music for a Record Price.[38]

The audio release of this film was launched on 17 December 2012 at Ramanaidu Cine Village at Nanakramguda.[39] Power Star Pawan Kalyan attended the function as chief guest and released the audio CD and handed over the first piece to Surekha, wife of Chiranjeevi. Stylish Star Allu Arjun and Rajamouli released the trailers on the occasion.[40] The audio got Positive Response and all songs were instant Chartbusters.[41]

No.TitleLyricsArtist(s)Length
1."Laila O Laila"ChandraboseShankar Mahadevan, Ranjith, Rahul Nambiar & Naveen Madhav04:35
2."Kathi Lanti Pilla"ChandraboseS. Thaman, Shefali Alvaris03:53
3."Subhalekha Raasukunna"Veturi Sundararama MurthyHaricharan, Shreya Ghosal04:12
4."Oka Choopuke Padipoya"BhaskarabhatlaVijay Prakash, Bindu Mahima04:46
5."Nellorae"SahithiJaspreet Jasz, Suchitra03:53
6."Hey Naayak"ChandraboseShreya Ghosal, Naveen Madhav[42][43]04:38
Total length:25:57

Release

It film was released worldwide on 9 January 2013[8] and was reported that it will be the first big production to release in 2013 to kick off the lucrative Sankranthi season.[44] In January 2013, it was reported that in Nizam area, Geetha Arts and Dil Raju have confirmed 110 screens so far and Vizag area is going to have a 103-screens release which is an impressive number in Vizag as the previous record was held by Mahesh Babu's Business Man with 84 Screens.[45][46] Naayak is going to release in over 100 screens in USA and Canada[47] Naayak was submitted to Central Board of Film Certification on 4 January 2013 and it received A certificate. The Tamil version of Ram Charan's 'Naayak' will be releasing on 25 January 2013. Later it was confirmed that the movie would release on the date specified earlier in 1210 Screens Worldwide.[48]

Controversies

Girijan Student associations have raised an objection over the title, stating that the term 'Naayak' is reserved for use exclusively by people belonging to the Lambadi sect and demanded a change in the movie's title.[49] Objection raised by the Girijan Students was submitted before the Censor Board and the Board decided not to change the title as it felt that the title does not relate to any caste feelings.[50]

Before the release, Dasari Narayana Rao heavily came down on this film by calling it as a blantant copy of Baasha.[51] Dasari even tried to buy the distribution rights of the film but Ramcharan vehemently rejected instead he bought Viswaroopam to damage Naayak's collections.[52]

A politician Gandi Babji protested against the film because the character of Rahul Dev is called "Gaandipetta Babji" which is somewhat share similarities with his name. Babji felt his name would be portrayed in bad light and he threatened to take action against film.[53]

Reception

The movie bagged negative critical reception. Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran of DNA India gave a review stating "Naayak is a film that you will regret watching. Sasidhar AS of The Times of India gave a review stating "Director Vinayak has not delivered his best with Nayak but has tried to balance the comedy with action to a large extent. Radhika Rajamani of Rediff.com gave a review of rating 2/5.

Aplive.net gave a review of rating 2.25/5. Mahesh S Koneru of 123telugu.com gave a review of rating 1.25/5. Jeevi of idlebrain.com gave a review of rating 2/5. Oneindia Entertainment gave a review of rating 1/5. Kanchana Devi of truthdive.in gave a review of rating 2/5. GreatAndhra.com gave a review of rating 1.25/5. APHerald gave a review of rating 1.25/5. SuperGoodMovies gave a review of rating 1.5/5. way2movies.com gave a review of rating 2/5.

Box office

Naayak opened to very poor collections at the box office.

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